For the past 15 days or maybe a bit less, flexget has been failing to "see" the releases of some of my shows, that previously worked fine. When I use the cli command: flexget series show xxxx I can see all the releases of the show up to ~15 days ago with the release downloaded for each episode highlighted, but nothing since. Now, I know there have been new episodes of that show (with multiple releases each) in my rss feeds, but somehow flexget did not "see" them. This is happening only for some shows, whereas others work fine. I do not understand what is happening. Can someone explain and help?

edit: I just realized that all the series that have been having problems are series with parentheses in their names in my config file. If a series is named "the xxxx" I have it in my config as (the) xxxx to be sure to catch all releases. Well, since an update some time in December, this filter has been failing to match releases named the.xxxx.s??.e??.whatever. Has there been some deliberate change to how parentheses are handled or is this a bug?

I really do not want to get into tvdb ids and regexp. I prefer a much cleaner config, with one line for every series, for ease.(Jims) xxxx used to work fine, matching both xxxx and Jims xxxx. Now it matches nothing. Why?

There have been no changes to the config for months, and it used to work fine, so there is no point to a debug log (and privacy concerns force me to not provide one).Flexget just does no longer match entries like:

the.xxxx.720p.hdtvjims yyyy 1080p web

to the above filters. Removing the parentheses from the config produces matches again. So there has been a change to the way parentheses are handled by flexget or at least the series plugin. This should be very easy to duplicate. Please take a look at it.